Monday, August 13, 2007

Daily Dose Ate My Hamster


A fellow drug/alcohol blogger has alerted me to the fact that Daily Dose is no longer linking to blogs. Yes the drug/alcohol blogosphere, the drugalcosphere, the dralcosphere, is all abuzz with this devastating news. Daily Dose, the world's greatest abstracting service on substance misuse, does not find bloggers a worthy source of news.

You know what? I so don't care. Their alcohol coverage is crap - every time I look it is all mainstream stuff from the BBC or stuff from Australia. Google Reader is a better source of information. Alcohol Policy UK would easily be a better source of what was happening if it was less sporadic. Come to that, my teenage sons are a better source.

And apart from BBC and Australian stories, it's mostly drugs news. Binge Britain (a nasty, worthless, alcohol blog) offers a stunning prize to the first reader who can show me a week of 'Doses' that has more UK alcohol news coverage than drugs.

Get over it people.